{"id":17343,"date":"2024-12-21T09:45:31","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T09:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/yellow-freight-closure-thread-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum\/"},"modified":"2024-12-21T09:45:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T09:45:31","slug":"yellow-freight-closure-thread-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/yellow-freight-closure-thread-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Freight closure thread | TruckersReport.com Trucking Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tA lot of fireworks in a very short time about Yellow. <\/p>\n<p>Teamsters Boss Sean O\u2019Brien has called out Yellow CEO Darren Hawkins in the youtube vid below and on Twitter yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>Supposedly Hawkins has been telling drivers that Yellow will be out of money by August. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CEO Says Yellow Is Going Broke In 30 Days &amp; 9100 Truck Drivers Could Lose Their Job \ud83e\udd2f\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cx112ar764E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamsterSOB\/status\/1672721555426516993?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"externalLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamsterSOB\/status\/1672721555426516993?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruckersreport.com\/truckingindustryforum\/attachments\/img_2681-jpeg.472374\/\" alt=\"IMG_2681.jpeg\" class=\"bbCodeImage LbImage\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruckersreport.com\/truckingindustryforum\/attachments\/img_2680-jpeg.472373\/\" alt=\"IMG_2680.jpeg\" class=\"bbCodeImage LbImage\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Yellow received a $700M loan during Covid, but to date has only paid back $56.7 million of that, yet they sure can seem to find money to repaint trucks and trailers and drop the YRC name. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freightwaves.com\/news\/yellow-teamsters-battle\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"externalLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">How Teamsters and trucking giant Yellow ended up in a bitter battle<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freightwaves.com\/news\/ltl-carrier-yellow-to-close-terminals-as-part-of-transformation\/amp?fbclid=IwAR1EKeiJuhXPdtazi5i7c9m6k-mhAsG9ahKVCDldefDqpOI3-dHlJ29KBrY\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"externalLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.freightwaves.com\/news\/ltl-carrier-yellow-to-close-terminals-as-part-of-transformation\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrucker.com\/trucking-news\/business\/yrc-worldwide-returns-to-roots-as-yellow-corp-ltl-brands-retain-existing-names\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"externalLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.thetrucker.com\/trucking-news\/business\/yrc-worldwide-returns-to-roots-as-yellow-corp-ltl-brands-retain-existing-names<br \/><\/a><br \/>Just bad decision after bad decision for this company since 2003. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sad for 9107 drivers who will be affected by the bad decisions and mismanagement, but hopefully the rest of the industry will step up and absorb these drivers and put them to work.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script>\n\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n\t\tn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n\t\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n\t\tdocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\tfbq('dataProcessingOptions', []);\n\tfbq('init', '1812746315680142'); \/\/ Insert your pixel ID here.\n\t\t\t\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\t\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruckersreport.com\/truckingindustryforum\/threads\/yellow-freight-closure-thread.2480122\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of fireworks in a very short time about Yellow. 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